Just so stories, The Sing-song of Old Man Kangaroo, sentence 58
‘Yes,’ said Dingo--Yellow-Dog Dingo,--‘I am just in the same situation.
Who acts: Dingo, I · What happens: say, be · To what, where: same situation · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Just so stories» by Rudyard Kipling, The Sing-song of Old Man Kangaroo. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Dingo, I), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 2 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 5 said | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Yes | punct |
| 4 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Yes | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | Dingo | Dingo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 said | nsubj |
| 7 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 11 Dingo | punct |
| 8 | Yellow | yellow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 Dog | amod |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 Yellow | punct |
| 10 | Dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 Dingo | compound |
| 11 | Dingo | Dingo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Dingo | appos |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 situation | punct |
| 13 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 21 situation | punct |
| 14 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 21 situation | punct |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 situation | nsubj |
| 16 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 situation | cop |
| 17 | just | just | ADV | _ | 21 situation | advmod |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 situation | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 situation | det |
| 20 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 situation | amod |
| 21 | situation | situation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 Dingo | appos |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Dingo | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is | present | I | the same situation | tree rules |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Just so stories» by Rudyard Kipling, Project Gutenberg book 2781 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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